Welcome to Holloway Baptist Church in Deville, LA!

Welcome to Holloway Baptist Church in Deville, LA!Welcome to Holloway Baptist Church in Deville, LA!

Congratulations 2020 Graduates!

"Phase 1" Modified Services for Weekly Worship

Now that Louisiana has entered "Phase 1" of our return to normal after the COVID-19 pandemic, we in the beginning phases of transitioning the return to some of our normal services at Holloway. We will not be doing our "Front Porch and Parking Lot" services and beginning Sunday, May 24th Worship services will resume in our sanctuary beginning at 10:00 AM instead of our normal service time of 11:00 AM.

As we re-enter Worship services at Holloway, we will have some guidelines for our seating arrangements to adhere to so that we remain in compliance of the 25% capacity that the Governor has set in place for "Phase 1" re-opening of houses of worship such as ours. Our estimation is that the sanctuary can hold up to 360 people, so by abiding to the 25% capacity we are only allowed to have a maximum of 90 people in the sanctuary for worship services.

Some important news:

We are still recommending social distance which is 6 feet between your self and your neighbor. With this in mind, instruction will be given on the seating arrangements so that we can maintain the social distance with each other in the pews during worship. There will be some spacing required between pews to keep in compliance with this guidelines. The pews will either be marked where seating is allowed and/or an usher will assist with seating. In an effort to utilize the space that we have available, we're asking that households sit together on the same pew.

We will be having our normal offering time during the service, but in an effort to avoid unnecessary contact and exposure, our offering plates will be positioned in the foyer so your contributions can be given as you exit the worship service.

At this time, we will continue to only have Sunday morning worship and will not be having Sunday School, Sunday evening or Wednesday night services until further notice.

If you feel uncomfortable coming inside the sanctuary, our services will continue to be transmitted on 107.3 FM via the FM transmitter as we have done in the past weeks. You will be able to listen while in your vehicle if you wish.

We will continue our efforts to post the services live via our Facebook page as we enter this new phase in an effort to give you an option to join us in worship virtually via the internet as we have been doing. For Facebook users you can watch a live stream video of the service on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/HollowayBaptistChurchDeville/videos

*Note: If you miss the live stream, the video will be recorded and accessible after the service

has finished. Thanks to Anna Richerson for recording the video and posting to our Facebook

site!

Our services will also be available on our podcast at: http://www.buzzsprout.com/46191. *Note: The podcast is not live, but will be available later Sunday afternoon.

Please continue to be safe, use good judgement, and please keep praying for all affected by this virus.

News About Homecoming 2020

Homecoming Service is tentatively planned to be done at a later date

With the uncertainty of the current COVID-19 events, we have determined that it would be best to postpone our regular Homecoming service until a later date this year until there is more stability among the concerns associated with the COVID-19 virus. This means that we will have our regular worship service on Sunday, June 7th at 10:00 AM. Due to sanitation concerns, we did not see how we could keep with social distancing guidelines by doing our normal Homecoming events such as sharing microphones for special singing or having dinner on the grounds. Our goal is to have another Sunday designated later this year to have our normal events.

Evan Norris will be bringing our message on Sunday, June 7th so we ask that you would hear him prayerfully.

As we complete the next phases for returning back to "normal" we will communicate the new Homecoming date for 2020 as we feel that it is the right time.

Please help us get this communicated by letting your family and friends know about these changes.